I found this recipe for homemade conditioner using vinegar and tried it. It works WONDERFULLY! I could not believe how tangle-free my hair was. I made a batch with rosemary oil and another with lavender oil. With four ladies here, I am sure we will save a lot of money using this recipe. Homemade Hair Conditioner: Vinegar Rinse Is Awesome! (This site is about reducing the plastic in your life. As someone who really hates plastic- mainly because it’s not old-fashioned, but also because it’s not good for you, I found it great reading.)

I want to try some of the homemade shampoo and other products from Pioneer Thinking’s Hair Care Center.

George Washington — Model of Christian virtue

Eclipse tomorrow night! Get ready for the eclipse that saved Columbus. I love the story about Columbus!

Lost JFK Assassination Documents Believed Found in Dallas Courthouse

Bill Clinton goes on tirade against pro-life students (Video included)

Arizona considers concealed carry at schools (My beloved works at a college, so this subject is very close to my heart.)

It should be clear now that declaring schools “gun free zones” does not make them gun free zones. It makes them killing fields if a mad gunman enters them and opens fire…

Allowing concealed carry at schools won’t, as some believe, mean that everyone will be armed and when violence erupts a free-for-all will ensue. It would mean that people who have demonstrated responsibility with firearms by undergoing certified training would be able to obtain a permit to carry. Those people would be the ones who would be most likely to respond to a mad gunman. They would be able to return fire and possibly end rampages and save lives…

If there is an attack, armed students or faculty might be able to stop the gunman. It happened at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia on January 16, 2002.

John R. Lott, Jr. spoke about this subject on the Dennis Miller Radio show after the Va. Tech shootings: “He believes, as the title of his book suggests, that more guns in our population means less crime. In fact, Lott says multiple public-shootings drop by some 60 percent (wow!) in areas that have right-to-carry laws on the books.” Here is a great Interview with John R. Lott, Jr., author of More Guns, Less Crime.

China House Church Persecution Worsens

Unpopular at home, Bush basks in African praise

I hope to have a book review of Passionate Housewives very soon. I have been sick, so have not been able to get to it yet! I will say that I wish every Christian woman could have a copy of this book!!

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Bro. Voddie Baucham has two posts up about Christians removing their children from public schools.

What About Single Moms?
Salt and Light

“I was raised by a single mother. I would never argue that single mothers are irrelevant, or that they should be ignored. Quite the contrary, part of our message is that churches need to do more to provide affordable educational alternatives for those who cannot afford conventional educational options.”

“I have asked before, and I will ask again, how far do they have to go? What do they have to do to our children before we will leave? Do they have to molest our children? They’ve done that. Do they have to beat, maim or kill our children? They’ve done that too. Do they have to fail to educate our children adequately? They’ve done that. Do they have to deny our God and his laws? They have done that too. Do they have to lead our children away from Christ and his Church in droves by indoctrinating them in Atheistic Secular Humanism? Check that one off too. When will enough be enough? When will our desire to raise our children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6:4) outweigh our addiction to free daycare?”

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For God so loVed the world,
that He gAve
his onLy
begottEn
SoN,
That whosoever
believeth In Him
should Not perish,
but have Everlasting life.

John 3:16

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“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39

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For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23

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“Difficulty is sent to reveal to us what God can do in answer to the faith that prays and works.” (emphasis mine)

Streams in the Desert, February 13th Entry

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If you have never heard Bro. Voddie Baucham preach, then you are in for a real treat! He is an old-fashioned Baptist preacher who tells it like it is. I first heard about him from my pastor a few weeks ago. My understanding is that Bro. Voddie used to be very involved in youth ministry for the Southern Baptist Convention until he became convicted that the way youth ministry is being done is not biblical. You can hear a powerful sermon delivered to a Baptist convention called “Closing the Generation Gap” here. He tells the truth about how children are no longer valued by Baptists in general and how most youth ministry is not biblical.

There are many audio and video files listed and a brief bio of Bro. Voddie at Reforming My Mind. Bro. Voddie has an excellent website and blog at VoddieBaucham.org. He is a pastor at Grace Family Baptist Church. He was interviewed extensively on the film The Return of the Daughters. You can see an excellent video clip with Bro. Voddie that didn’t make it to the final cut here.

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